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speaking as an American engineer who has had to deal with a lot of code produced by "cheap" Indian and Chinese programmers, I can't help but laugh at the naivet
by mkramlich 15y ago
speaking as an American engineer who has had to deal with a lot of code produced by "cheap" Indian and Chinese programmers, I can't help but laugh at the naivete of this perspective. You tend to get what you pay for in a global market where the price is efficient.
Also in my experience ideas and idea people are a dime a dozen. I have notebooks full of hundred ideas I don't have the time, energy or money to execute on. Talent (and availability and interest, etc) is hard to find. That's the bottleneck.
- skeptical 15y agoVery insightful post. I've been trying to understand the common factor of successful stories and I had a blurry idea of what it takes to be successful. While your first paragraph is something I came to realize very long ago, I couldn't put the finger on it like you did in the punch line. You nailed it!
- nandemo 15y ago> You tend to get what you pay for in a global market where the price is efficient. I agree that the proposition is naive. That said, the global market for programmers' salaries (or contractor's rates) is most definitely not efficient.